> From: ml-perl[at]thepierianspring.org (Randy W. Sims)
>
> Once
> your program allocates memory, it can never be freed even if you
> undefine every variable in your script.
Will that memory be re-used by the existing Perl process, or is it just leaked?
"Terrorism is a symptom, not the diseas
On 6/30/2004 4:38 PM, perl.org wrote:
If the file is relatively small, why not read it into an array, then just
manipulate the array index? Something like:
my @{lines} = ;
Small pet peeve: slurping entire files is a bad habbit in general. Once
your program allocates memory, it can never be freed
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06/30/2004 05:52 PM
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Subject: Re: Searching ahead in a file
Japhy et al,
This worked perfectly for what I want to do.
Thanks to all of you, I am learning at a greater rate than by working
Japhy et al,
This worked perfectly for what I want to do.
Thanks to all of you, I am learning at a greater rate than by working alone.
Many thanks.
At 04:32 PM 6/30/04 -0400, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>On Jun 30, David Arnold said:
>
>>As I begin reading in lines from the file, I just print t
Sorry,
while( ${ln} <= $#lines )
That $# starting with -1 thing really gets to me.
On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:38:45 -0400, perl.org wrote
> If the file is relatively small, why not read it into an array, then
> just manipulate the array index? Something like:
>
> my @{lines} = ;
> close( IN );
>
If the file is relatively small, why not read it into an array, then just
manipulate the array index? Something like:
my @{lines} = ;
close( IN );
my ${ln} = 0;
while( ${ln} <= $#lines + 1 )
{
# check ${lines[${ln}]} and manipulate ${ln} accordingly.
}
> I would suggest the following approach:
On Jun 30, David Arnold said:
>As I begin reading in lines from the file, I just print them until I hit a
>line that has an opening "\ex" in it. At that point I want to accumulate
>lines in one long string until I hit either "\begin{instructions}" or
>another "\ex".
>
>$line.= #unless the curren
All,
I have a file that is filled with exercises that was written in a brand of
lamstex that I need to convert to latex. Exercises begin like this:
\ex If $f(x)=x^2$, blah ...
That is, I can count on each exercise beginning with the \ex macro.
Now there are at times instructions for groups of e
